The Best Save of All Time?

[CraigsList]

Kipper, Hasek, and Quick are my favorite goalies.

 

[jetsforever]

There's too many saves, and each one somebody could say, "my beer league goalie made a stop like that." It would have to be a save that saved the stanley cup in game 7 overtime or something.

Yeah, there are going to be highlight-reel saves every season and over time there's no way of distinguishing them. The only way is with context/historical significance.

 

[CHGoalie27]

jonathan quicks superhuman leg save gets my vote. Among athletic goalies, he is clearly the most impressive. This save is jaw dropping

As a goalie of the last 25 years, that Quick save would have gotten my vote if not for this:

 

[Agent Zub]

gah i hope we get another Thomas and Hasek. Two of the most entertaining and great athletes in history.

 

[Sstroh84]

 

[member 300185]

The Andersen save with the Leafs where he got a paddle on the puck where the shooter had open net.

 

[Master P]

 

[Mitch nylander]

Definitely not the best save of all time but this remains my fav save.

 

[Silky mitts]

The one where Crosby went "What the ****??".

This one? Gets my vote anyway.

 

[Rebels57]

Brian Boucher on Patrik Elias in the 2000 ECF is my favorite save ever

 

[jc17]

 

[Esq]

 

[BM14]

Shanahan coming to the Leafs.

 

[ottawa]

 

[Bounces R Way]

Certainly not the best of all time but this one makes me laugh because Allen makes it look casual somehow.

 

[JoVel]

This one? Gets my vote anyway.

I hadn't seen that, but I was talking about this one:



Couldn't remember the goalie's name at first.

 

[Binister]

 

[orby]

Came in here to post the Caron save. Just an absolutely perfect, incredibly lucky save - he had no business stopping that from going in...and yet, he did.

 

[Allan92]

Surprised no one has posted a link yet

 

[spiny norman]

 

[Sorry]

If there was ever a thread that had to respect the buzzword “clutchness”, this it that thread. The importance of the save outweighs the athleticism. That doesn’t mean that a simple pad save in OT of a playoff game is greater than a spectacular save in a blowout game. There’s a balance.

As a Pens fan, Fluery in game 7 in the ‘09 finals on Lidstrom is #1. “The save” is #2. Brent Johnson saving himself from Ricky D is #3. Jean-Sebastian Aubin blocking a friendly chair toss from Tommy Barrasso is #4. Anyone save the moose made in ‘01 is #5.

As for the rest of the hockey world; Richter spit save on Bure. Name one save that gained that much national exposure for the sport, displayed a high degree of skill from both sides, and was that pivotal?

 

[Joey Moss]

[yt]

 

[Rebels57]

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Braithwaite came to mind immediately. Nabokov too. Forgot about the Caron one that's definitely up there, those 3 would all make my shortlist. The Holtby one from this year was great too. So many great saves to mention.

Not best of all time, but a few of my favourites came in the same playoff series. In big moments too.

 

[tiburon12]

Biased as a Sharks fan to that Nabokov save in the OP. That save happened super late on the East Coast, and I remember thinking that the most Sharks thing to happen would be for the goal judge to say it crossed the line.

After that save i thought we were gonna win the series. What actually bothered me more was that Turco later stopped Marleau on a rush with a clumsy save with his huge gold pads and the announcers were equating the two saves, as if they could be compared